News is news
And boy does CNN love its news! The past few weeks have been all about the violence in Iran. But I guess the violence is over now that Michael Jackson has died.
My bad, I forget:
How many people does it take to change the world, CNN?
Ahhh... I remember now:
One. Un. Uno. Donh. Baako. Ikan.
Michael Jackson is the King of Pop. I must have downloaded his whole discography. I must have kissed a hundred girls dancing to his music in high school, in college, after college, in Ghana.
But did his death somehow put an end to all that crazy violence in Iran? Because all of a sudden, nobody cares anymore. Two days ago, CNN was giving a 600 pixel tribute to Neda. Not any more. From CNN to IRNA: Move over Neda, it's Jackson's turn to die. Don't forget to close the door on your way out. And by the way, thanks for keeping that 600 pixels wide display on CNN's front page warm for the King of Pop.
Step aside Iran, Ahmadinejad, Khamenei, Mousavi... Yeah, you cute. But you were ooooh soooo two days ago!
And I don't mean to discriminate. By no means am I just picking on the "best political team" ever for dropping its coverage of the Iranian elections. Even BBC dropped its coverage and gave a whopping 500 pixels to Michael Jackson on its front page.
So, now that the media is drawing its attention on other important matters, we can finally rest assured that the war of protests in Iran is won. We can now expect the uprisings to cease by the end of next week, right?
Yeah. Sure.
My take on this is not so sweet. I agree, the elections were probably rigged... And well, I'd be darned to find an election that wasn't rigged. Seriously. What about what's been going on in South America for the past few years. Latin American presidents have been changing their laws to allow legal dictatorships. Essentially to allow them to run for as many terms as they want. No more term limits plus control over political party organization, campaign rules, and elections equal dictatorship to me.
Where else can we find sketchy... ergghhh... George W. Bush... errghhmmm... elections?
Come to Africa. Or go to America. Whether you like it or not, even Saddam Hussein could have been president if he had $1 billion dollars to spend freely.
What about those elections in Iran?
Psskkk.. I got a secret for you... We're never gonna find out. That's right! Like we're ever gonna find out for sure what went down in Iran. As cooooky it sounds, I'm starting to think that there's some sense in the midst of nonesense with what this Ah-ma-jin-a-whats-his-face guy has to say. Like, you know, there would have been a lot less violence if the Western media hadn't been all up their butts, pretty much urging Iranians to throw their young lives away against a government.
It's like the ultimate reality television show in America with Persian music in the background as if the average bear knows the difference between Persian, Arabic, and Indian music anyways.
This season, CNN brings you all the action... on "I Looooove Cooper". Watch Anderson Cooper, perhaps the prettiest man on television, as he goes where no millionaire (on television) has ever gone before... LIVE from TEHRAN!
I mean, come on, the American people will lose interest in this conflict once the NFL preseason starts up again. For crying out lout, we KNOW that Ax-ha-ma-crack-a-jack is OBVIOUSLY not going to relinquish power. We KNOW that no one is going to stop him from claiming an election he OBVIOUSLY rigged.
And he has every good reason to rig this election. His government is, uh, unstopabble. Every few years, he flies to the US on his fancy jet and gets first class treatment as he spews curses at us and our mommas in our own house.
And what do we do? We put him on Larry King Live. We broadcast his speech all over the country. In English and Spanish. CNN puts a countdown on their website to let us know when he's gonna speak. The world watches and listens.
What crazy stuff will Ahmadinejad say this time? Will he curse the US? Again... Will he say the holocaust never happened? Again... Will he call Bush's mom a whore? Oh... that'd be good! Will he call Michelle Obama a gorilla? Ouch! Find out LIVE as always on "I Loooooove Cooper"...
Seriously. This guy is an American superstar, a celebrity, a Perez Hilton. Without the US, he'd be nothing. Sure, he's intelligent, but his whole whole career is built on tactically inserted insults as if somewhere under his pillow case at night is a tightly consealed quote from Mike Tyson.
Aside from all this bickering, I would propose a single question.
What is news?
This is not to argue whether news should be for reporting, commentary, or entertainment or argue what topics should be covered, such as politics, economics, and athletics. No, this is to question the underlying purpose of news. Whether it is meant to playback what has already happened or to influence what may happen in the future.
In other words, is news about the old or is news about the new.
So much goes unnoticed in the world everyday. People live. People die. Men are murdered. Women are raped. Children are born. Celebrations are held. Things happen.
Therefore, what makes a single event more important than another. Do I really care more about elections in Iran than elections in Honduras? Will I acutally watch CNN more if they cover an interesting even in China than if they cover an interesting event in Sierre Leone.
No.
The only reason CNN shows me this crap is wants me to care about it. Sure, it's still interesting and educating, but CNN doesn't care about that. They want to influence me and flash a bunch of dumb images in front of me.
Ah, MT, you conspiracy theorist, you! Tssk tssk tssk...
Whatever. All I know is that the last few weeks of Iran elections crap has made me realize one thing:
News sucks.
Information is much much better for my brain. I'd rather learn the facts from Wikipedia, from multiple sources, and from personal experience than watch a rich white-haired pretty boy smile and lick his lips on televsion as he recites the words written on a teleprompter, written by a misterious individual somewhere in the world and edited by some rich white guy, no offense.
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